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Baldur's Gate 3 |Early Access OT| Rolling the Dice
- Thread starter GrrImAFridge
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This is the best way to put it.
I hope that they make the fact that there are consequences clear once that is a thing.
Done about 30 Hours and completed most things i think.
Here is list i started to put together of quests that cant be fully completed yet.
Here is list i started to put together of quests that cant be fully completed yet.
"The missing boots"
"The nightsong"
"Rescue the Grand Duke"
"Find the Githyanki Creche"
"Reach Moonrise Towers"
"Free the Artist" - you can free him, but the quest notes you'll meet him in the city
"Hunt the Devil/Kill Anders" - Won't complete right now even though Karlach is informed. Overall quest says you'll see her in the city.
"Rescue the Survivors" - can't cross the water in the Underdark yet.
"Steal the Sacred Idol" - if you do steal it and give it to Mol it notes that she'll repay you in the city.
"The nightsong"
"Rescue the Grand Duke"
"Find the Githyanki Creche"
"Reach Moonrise Towers"
"Free the Artist" - you can free him, but the quest notes you'll meet him in the city
"Hunt the Devil/Kill Anders" - Won't complete right now even though Karlach is informed. Overall quest says you'll see her in the city.
"Rescue the Survivors" - can't cross the water in the Underdark yet.
"Steal the Sacred Idol" - if you do steal it and give it to Mol it notes that she'll repay you in the city.
Man as soon as you get to the underdark the game goes from early access to early early access
I had barely any bugs in the Underdark. But it also seems like an area you should be level 5 in for a bunch of fights.
The update that was just pushed to steam I seem to be stuck unpacking.
Edit: Finally went through, was just stuck for a good long while.
Edit: Now I'm crashing when loading my save on either Vulkan or DirectX 🤕
Edit: Finally went through, was just stuck for a good long while.
Edit: Now I'm crashing when loading my save on either Vulkan or DirectX 🤕
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I had two updates one for 471MB and when that finished unpacking it queued up a (gulp) 27.6GB update. Ouch, time to make dinner I guess...
They'll come just usually takes a while for the posts to update on Steam.
EDIT: Nevermind they're up. Adding here for those who don't have access to Steam.
Quite a few updates. RIP to double Shadowhearts.
The game went insanely buggy for me, enemies were doing attacks and i could see their X,Y,Z vectors xD
Coupled with "CUTSCENE PENDING" becoming a thing, can see why they kept delaying early access
I think Steam is re-downloading the entire EA client after finishing the 471MB and 27.6GB update I am now up to 56.5GB update. I have no idea what is going on...
There's an interview with Larian in a German gaming magazine about what's in the pipeline but it's gated behind a paywall. Gamestar if someone is paying for it here.
i guess i got lucky because my saves are fine
there were definitely more unfinished cutscenes but apart from that i didn't experience any bugs really
I finished the first 2 hours.
Overall this is exceeding my expectations. Visually good, nice epic soundtrack, interesting story/characters so far. Not the biggest fan of turn based combat normally in WRPGs, but it is fine so far. Also nice that the game runs decent at max settings, strangely going to 4K doesn't seem to degrade performance that much which is interesting and lower FPS is OK for this game.
Main things I am wondering:
How to highlight interactable objects (not just NPSs).
How to play fully in 3rd person over the shoulder.
Overall this is exceeding my expectations. Visually good, nice epic soundtrack, interesting story/characters so far. Not the biggest fan of turn based combat normally in WRPGs, but it is fine so far. Also nice that the game runs decent at max settings, strangely going to 4K doesn't seem to degrade performance that much which is interesting and lower FPS is OK for this game.
Main things I am wondering:
How to highlight interactable objects (not just NPSs).
How to play fully in 3rd person over the shoulder.
This might be ... interesting. Lae'zel died on the ship at the start of my ranger playthru.
The mind flatter got his ass kicked by the devil and then destroyed her. Wasn't planning on using her anyway, but it's nice to have the option.
Edit: Nevermind, she was still in the cage.
The mind flatter got his ass kicked by the devil and then destroyed her. Wasn't planning on using her anyway, but it's nice to have the option.
Edit: Nevermind, she was still in the cage.
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Is Shadowheart not being able to hit the broadside of a barn a function of bad luck or bad stats?
I can't seem to get her to hit much of anything with her mace or her spells across a run and a quarter now. And I can never get her into better position to try to bump her odds up. When i find the necklace that gives you a free misty step each short rest, she's definitely getting it.
I can't seem to get her to hit much of anything with her mace or her spells across a run and a quarter now. And I can never get her into better position to try to bump her odds up. When i find the necklace that gives you a free misty step each short rest, she's definitely getting it.
Bought this last night in a moment of boredom and weakness, got to the druid grove and... yeah, I think I'm done for now. I'm confident the finished product will be great, but things are super rough right now. I know it's EA, but I think I expected what was there to be a bit more polished with how much they had been advertising this game's EA release date.
Had one spot with Shadowheart where I had to keep helping her up over and over again, and she'd keep getting downed the next turn, so we were just in this endless stalemate of me getting her up, her getting re-downed, and me futilely taking the odd ranged shot in between that would inevitably miss every bloody time. The combat in general currently just feels a lot clunkier than something like DOS2.
Had multiple occasions where I killed an enemy, only for their corpse to completely flip out stretching and clipping through the map, and then disappear. The UI is also kind-of a mess to use, and I'm getting huge plummets in my frame rate in strange places.
You're not alone. She's useless.
Had one spot with Shadowheart where I had to keep helping her up over and over again, and she'd keep getting downed the next turn, so we were just in this endless stalemate of me getting her up, her getting re-downed, and me futilely taking the odd ranged shot in between that would inevitably miss every bloody time. The combat in general currently just feels a lot clunkier than something like DOS2.
Had multiple occasions where I killed an enemy, only for their corpse to completely flip out stretching and clipping through the map, and then disappear. The UI is also kind-of a mess to use, and I'm getting huge plummets in my frame rate in strange places.
You're not alone. She's useless.
Is there anyway to scroll/shrink/zoom the quest log. Once youve gone over a page you can close/open the details and I cant see the quests that are cutoff from the page.
On the far left side , there's a scroll bar with teeny tiny little up and down arrows on the top and bottom.
lol so if you attack something, get engage dialogue, then sleep the same something - its perma sleep'd.
They really need surprise round/setup functionality
They really need surprise round/setup functionality
you can also switch character and keep trying to shove them off a cliff
How the heck do you steal the Idol in druid grove without getting caught?
I've tried everything I can think of. Regular stealth, misty step, pass without a trace, disguise self, invisibility position, using a familiar to move it (who was also invisible). Nothing works. They always catch me.
I've tried everything I can think of. Regular stealth, misty step, pass without a trace, disguise self, invisibility position, using a familiar to move it (who was also invisible). Nothing works. They always catch me.
I started getting a weird issues around the Risen Road. Not sure if it's the area or if it's just at this point in the game it's starting to bug for whatever reason. But over the last few sessions, I've had errors when trying to quicksave.
It will come up with an error "failed to copy" and "failed to save" or "failed to delete" referring to the save file. The first time it froze and had to close out, and it warned of a corrupted file, though I could still play it. Just be careful of this happening, and make new saves often, as it doesn't happen when you make a new save.
It will come up with an error "failed to copy" and "failed to save" or "failed to delete" referring to the save file. The first time it froze and had to close out, and it warned of a corrupted file, though I could still play it. Just be careful of this happening, and make new saves often, as it doesn't happen when you make a new save.
have you tried creating a distraction? Shadowheart has a couple things that make people check out her illusions
First post-launch patch is live: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/1086940/view/2896336186753128622
Some interesting (non-spoilery) player data in their preface to the patch notes, too.
Some interesting (non-spoilery) player data in their preface to the patch notes, too.
i just stole with invisibility and immediately fast traveled to camp
So that works? God damn it. That's literally the only thing I didn't try. I didn't think she'd be able to distract all 4 or 5 people around big that perimeter.
And when you went back it was fine?
I didn't try stealing it, I just thought that might work. The animals in that area covered such a wide viewing angle that I didn't even try anything underhanded.
Ah, I'm going to guess that won't work then.
Someone else will have to test it though. I've already killed all the druids.
Damn. Baldur's Gate III patch coming through, but it really needs more than 50GB space to apply it...damn. Literally can't delete more shit, I guess I have to redownload it
Sigh. I deleted Witcher 3. But the patch is only 500 MB but it requires 50+ GB of space to apply it? Weird system
Sigh. I deleted Witcher 3. But the patch is only 500 MB but it requires 50+ GB of space to apply it? Weird system
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I thought I had done pretty much all the EA content with my Halfling Rogue but I have already found a couple things with my Elven Wizard just in the beginning that I completely missed on my first playthrough. This game is going to be massive, there is already a ton of content just in the EA Act I.
That seems like a cheat more than something that you're supposed to think to do in character. Haha.
I got this bad feeling when first going down there and decided I'd wait until larger updates and more classes.
lol this is great i got the minotaurs and bulette to fight eachother
i agree, but it's early access...and it doesn't feel as awkward as reloading a save a bunch of times to get something right
Yeah. I was mostly just trying to figure out the limitations of all the different methods I attempted. But eventually I just went with one and accepted the consequences. (A gigantic fight)
My ranger play through is going pretty smoothly so far. A lot of it is knowing where the fights are going to be so that I can get better positioning, but a good bit of it is starting most fights with a sneak attack from Astarion (who I didn't use last time).
And while she still sucks at magic, I'm liking Shadowheart a lot more as it's become super obvious that she's got the hots for Wyll. She's much more relatable now.
And while she still sucks at magic, I'm liking Shadowheart a lot more as it's become super obvious that she's got the hots for Wyll. She's much more relatable now.
Yeah, picking it up breaks invisibility. I found a workaround, but it's possibly more ridiculous than the camp thing.
Shove doesn't break invisibility, so I just shoved it off the pedistal, then shoved it a bunch until I got it up the top of the stairs to the grove, out of vision of any druids before picking it up. They won't even notice it's missing until you actually pick it up, and they won't get mad at you unless they see you doing that... but once it's in your inventory they'll realize it's gone and will start fighting the Tiefling refugees.
There may have been a way to talk them out of it, I didn't really look. I just reloaded when it happened and came back for it after rescuing the druid leader, at which point they didn't do anything in retaliation. I was still able to complete the quest even.
There may have been a way to talk them out of it, I didn't really look. I just reloaded when it happened and came back for it after rescuing the druid leader, at which point they didn't do anything in retaliation. I was still able to complete the quest even.
Does Charm Person work? I charmed a goblin, it stabbed me in the back , then raised the alarm. Thanks friendo.
If it made the save then your spell failed. If it did not make the save then who did it stab? Charm Person only makes the victim unable to attack or cast a harmful spell at the person who charmed it. It doesn't prevent them from doing other things, like raising an alarm.
No. Had a heart floating above its head. I've seen this happen multiple times. In another instance the charmed goblin ran to high ground then proceeded to snipe the caster. I've had three instances that have led me to think the spell is worthless.